Elias Dylan Krell
773.654.0973 • eliaskrell2012@u.northwestern.edu
EDUCATION
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
Doctor of Philosophy Candidate, Performance Studies
Dissertation: Singing Strange: Performing Transvocality in
North America
Committee: E. Patrick Johnson (advisor), Ramòn RiveraServera, Nicholas Davis
San Francisco Conservatory of Music, San Francisco, IL
Master of Music in Voice Performance, June 2005
Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH
Bachelor of Arts in Ancient Greek, June 2003
Bachelor of Music in Voice Performance, June 2003
Graduated with Honors: Summa Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa
HONORS AND AWARDS
Northwestern University Graduate Research Ignition Grant
2011
Northwestern University Presidential Fellowship 2008-2013
DAAD Summer Language Grant 2009
San Francisco Hispanic Scholarship Fund Award 2005
San Francisco Italian Institute of Culture Scholarship
Recipient, 2005 and 2006
Classics Alumni Prize, 2003, Oberlin College Classics
Department
Phi Beta Kappa 2003
Oberlin College Science Scholar Fellow, 1998-2003
Book Prize for Excellence in First Year Greek 1998 Oberlin
College Classics Department
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Instructor, General Communications 103: The Analysis and
Performance of Literature, Performance Studies,
Northwestern University September 2010- June 2011
The course studies poetry, short fiction, and non-fiction through
performance. It explores how performance helps the performer and
audience to understand a text; it considers in what ways a
performance can “match” a written text; and it examines
techniques of performance. Students write critical papers and
give live performances, as well as attend outside performances,
learning how to think and write critically about performance.
Instructor, Private Voice Lessons, San Francisco Community
Music Center, September 2006- September 2008
Voice Faculty Member in a Not-for-Profit music school in San
Francisco.
ACADEMIC RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Anticipated Ethnographic Fieldwork for Dissertation, United
States and Canada: July 2011-September 2012
Will attend performance events, engage in artist and
audience interviews throughout the U.S. and Canada
INTERNSHIP EXPERIENCE
Intern, Community Resource Room Coordinator, The Women’s
Building
San Francisco, CA
July 2005- September 2007
Translated various manuals from English to Spanish, held
workshops in Spanish for recent immigrants on various jobsearch and computer skills, monitored resource room.
Intern, Transformative Justice Law Project of Illinois
Chicago, IL
June 2010-present
Translated TJLP brochure and other literature into Spanish.
Worked as translator between clients and their lawyers
within TJLP.
CONFERENCES PRESENTATIONS AND LECTURES
Krell, Elias. “Fashioning Trans Selves.” Queer Fashion(s):
UCLA Queer Studies Conference,
LGBT Studies, October
2011.
Krell, Elias. “I am (not) here: Reading Self and Location
in Aristotle’s Poetics through
Critical Race Theory.”
Problematizing: Identity as Place Panel. Queertopia! 4.0
Queer(ing) Poetics: Text, Method, Movement, Thought.
Chicago, May 2011.
Krell, Elias. “Toward a productive discomfort: Gender
performance of the public and
private trans-body”
Queers in Place Panel. Social Science History Association,
Chicago, November 2010.
Krell, Elias. “Toward a productive discomfort: Gender
performance of the public and
private trans-body.”
Performance Studies International, Toronto, June 2010.
Krell, Elias. “The Overexposed Underbelly of Transbodies
and Sex Gender Discourses”
The Second Annual National Graduate Student Conference
in Performance
Studies, UCLA, April 2010.
Krell, Elias “Identities in Process… Trans and the
Transvocal Spectrum,” Spectrums
Conference, University
Southern California School of Cinematic Arts, February
2010.
Krell, Elias. “Material and Performative Identities: Trans
and the Body with Antony and the Johnsons,” Trans Keyword
Talk, Gender Studies, Northwestern University.
February
2010.
PERFORMANCES/WORKSHOPS LED
Co-director, Co-performer, TRANS 101 WORKSHOP, About Face
Theater Company, Chicago, IL, January 2011.
Co-director, Co-performer, TRANS 101 AND BEYOND: An
Interactice Performance and Lecture, Northwestern
University, Sponsored by Queer Pride Graduate Student
Association, October 2010.
Director and performer, Big Tranny Hootenanny: An evening
of music, performance, and dance. Fundraiser for Transpositive Health Care Awareness. Chicago, IL, November 2010.
Ph.D Recital, Essentially Yours, Northwestern University,
June 2010
SKILLS
Performing Arts
Ten years of professional voice training, three years as
professional opera singer and actor. Two years professional
singer-songwriter performer. Instruments played: Accordion,
guitar, piano, harmonica, electric bass guitar, ukelele.
Languages
Bilingual in Latin American Spanish and English;
understanding of French, German and Italian. Fluent reading
in Ancient Greek and Latin.
Computer
Microsoft Applications: Word, Powerpoint, Excel, Internet
Recording Software: ProTools, Garageband
References: Nicholas Davis: nicholas-davis@northwestern.edu
E. Patrick Johnson: ejohnson10@northwestern.edu